Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 30 29. Merlin's Counterattack

"Five agents were stabbed in the leg. The blade went through the muscle without hurting the bone. Either our agents were lucky, or the person who did the knife was very precise."

"Eleven agents were involved in an explosion of suspected magical power. The least injured of them all needed to lie in the hospital for 11 months, and the few who were unlucky may have to be permanently transferred to civilian jobs. .”

The number two figure in the Strategic Science Corps, Alexander Pierce, threw the report in his hand on the table.

The nearly 50-year-old agent fell back and leaned on his office chair. He crossed his hands and placed them on his abdomen. Looking at Nick Fury standing in front of him, he asked softly:

"I heard that the man did it in the dark night, and he defeated 20 of our best fighters head-on."

"So, Fury, you still have to tell me that this man... this Merlin is actually a harmless target? You also have to tell me that this Merlin has been trying to make up for the bad things caused by him , has he been doing good things?"

Before Fury could answer, Pierce straightened his body, stood up in a very oppressive posture, and put his hands on the table.

He stared at Fury with sharp eyes, and said in a deep voice:

"That's a freak with supernatural power, an extremely dangerous person! He declared war on us in the most direct way! Fury!"

Fury didn't answer right away. He was familiar with Pierce's temper, and refuting at this time would only make the problem worse.

Based on his experience, Pierce's fiery temper will only last for 10 minutes at most.In his bones, Pierce is a very calm person, he will weigh the situation and make the most perfect judgment.

Just like what he did on the Vietnam War battlefield, with calm thinking and excellent overall situation, he led them to victory again and again.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, the anger in Pierce's eyes gradually faded away.The No. [-] figure of the Strategic Science Corps took a deep breath. He walked to the window and looked at the bustling street below. He lit a cigarette and said:

"Tell me, Fury. You've been trying to track him down for the past two years, and I need your advice now. What should we do with Merlin? What should we do with 084?"

After a while, Fury's voice sounded in the office.

"Pierce, although I'll make you angry when I say this, if you need me to give you a piece of advice, then I will say..."

Agent Fury said softly:

"We should approach him in a softer way. Don't be angry, listen to me!"

Seeing that Pierce was about to get angry again, Fury explained calmly:

"You have also read Merlin's file, and you also know the maximum power of his explosion... 2 years ago, he could easily blast away a 7-meter-thick obstacle mixed with steel. 2 years later, he The power will only become stronger. Therefore, if he really has murderous intentions, it is impossible for our agents to survive."

"But they survived. That reminds me of something I've been missing, maybe, it's not hostility, it's the way I'm doing it. He's not declaring war on us, Pierce."

Fury walked up to Pierce, and he said to his old boss on the field and in the office:

"It's like a rattlesnake, it's like a hound barking. It's a warning, he's warning us, he's resisting us, he's trying to send a message in that way, keep us away from him."

"so what?"

Pierce asked with narrowed eyes, and Fury replied softly:

"This kind of warning means that he is sane, and it also means that he does have a secret."

"Before Merlin made such a big fuss, he sneaked into Stark's mansion and met with Tony. Tony refused to describe to us the scene of their meeting, but I suspect that it should have something to do with the death of the Howards."

"That is to say..."

A gleam flashed in Pierce's eyes, and he said softly in a deduced way of thinking:

"That Merlin, saw or got something important. Maybe he saw the murderer, or, let our thinking go deeper, maybe before the Howards died, he was guided to take away something important, and now, he wants to return that thing to Tony Stark."

Having said that, Pierce glanced at Fury, and he saw the expectation in Fury's eyes.

"Maybe it's the... super soldier serum that caused Howard's death!"

Fury nodded, and he said:

"Merlin may have a serum on him, and he may even have been injected with that serum. This would explain why he was still able to move around freely after being hit by rubber bullets several times... He was most likely enhanced. "

"Then we must find him immediately!"

Pierce quickly walked to the desk, signed his name on a document, and handed the document to Fury. He said in a serious tone:

"That young man probably doesn't know the value and danger of what he holds. There is an organization hiding in the dark looking for him. If they can kill the Howards for the serum without hesitation, they will definitely not let it go he."

"He is in danger...I grant you emergency authority, Fury, you can mobilize any manpower you need, and I will fully support you!"

"I only have one request!"

Pierce gritted his teeth and said word by word:

"Bring me the missing Merlin as quickly as possible!"

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Merlin did not inject the blue liquid.

Regarding the current situation, although he was at a loss, he was at a loss.But he was not desperate enough to recklessly inject a jar of something of unknown origin into his body.

He has already suffered a lot because of his carelessness, and that lesson will accompany him throughout his life, and it is enough for him to learn to be cautious.

"Crack, click, click"

In the vibration of the train, there was the sound of ice cubes colliding in the thermos cup Merlin put on his lap, which was not enough to affect Merlin's thinking. He looked at the scenery outside the car window, but he didn't have the heart to watch that flash at all. The passing scenery.

The blue liquid was preserved by him with ice cubes, and he didn't know if this crude preservation method would invalidate the liquid.

He also didn't know why Howard Stark asked him to take the liquid away before he died.

But one thing is certain, this thing must be very precious.It is so precious that even big figures like the Howards have to be buried with it.

This alone is enough to make Merlin treat this thing with the most prudent attitude.

In fact, according to the information Merlin collected these days, he probably already guessed what this thing is.

Howard's greatest achievement in this life is that he produced the greatest hero for the Allied Forces during World War II, Captain America Steve Rogers. In any legendary story about Steve, the super soldier serum is indispensable. For miracle drugs.

The recipe for the drug was lost after Dr. Erkins was assassinated by government agents, but rumors that Howard knew the full recipe have always been alive and well.And if Howard really recreated the super soldier serum, then it is not incomprehensible that he suffered a fatal disaster.

Howard Stark is dead now. If there is no accident, the small half bag of liquid in Merlin's hand is the last super soldier serum left in the world.

But knowing these things is actually useless. The former Merlin was only one step away from becoming a doctor. He has enough medical knowledge to understand that to complete the transformation from a mortal to a superhero like Captain America Steve Rogers, it is definitely not just One tube of medicine can do it...

The substantial transformation of the human body is not so simple, it must be catalyzed by other methods.

A simple drug injection will not make Merlin stronger overnight, and there is even a great possibility that it will directly kill him.

Merlin stretched out his hand and clenched his fist. He looked at his fist. He recalled the experience of the past two years, and recalled the battle that took place on the banks of the Hudson River in Manhattan a few days ago...

He knows better than most people that in this world, no power has ever come so easily.

"Then what should I do with you?"

Merlin shook the thermos cup in his hand. He could feel that the ice cubes in the cup were about to melt, and he needed to replace the ice cubes again.

Fortunately, ice cubes are not rare, and there should be some in the dining car of this train bound for the west coast of the United States.

He stood up, pulled down his baseball cap, and walked towards the dining car with his backpack on his back.

Unfortunately, he didn't buy a ticket, but slipped into the car in some special way, just like before.So he had to dodge the flight attendants on the train. Fortunately, this was not a difficult task for Merlin.

Relying on the dark perception of his spirit vision, Merlin perfectly avoided the two flight attendants all the way. He came to the dining car. It was not time to eat, and there were only a few passengers chatting in the whole dining car.

Merlin quickly found the jar containing crushed ice. He poured out the water in the thermos cup, filled it with crushed ice, and closed the thermos cup tightly.

While he was finishing all this, a beautiful blonde woman came to Merlin with a glass of wine, and she seemed to be grabbing crushed ice from the jar.

Merlin took a step back in a gentlemanly manner. He glanced back at the clock, then took out another small water bottle that he carried with him, and prepared to drink some water to moisten his already parched throat.

But at the moment he raised the cup, his heart skipped a beat.

There was a bad message coming from the dark perception, but before Merlin could react, the beauty holding the wine slammed the glass in her hand to the edge of the bar. , stabbing Merlin's abdomen with a dagger gesture.

The blow came so suddenly that Merlin could only back away.But in the next second, something hard touched Merlin's back.

"Zizzi"

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of electric current, Merlin's whole body was paralyzed at this moment when he was hit by the electric shock device. He couldn't even hold the thermos cup in his hand, he could only watch the cup fall to the ground with full eyes, and was hit by the quick-eyed and quick-handed man again. The blond woman took it in her hands.

She turned and ran without hesitation.

Merlin's whole body was paralyzed, but the electric shock wasn't fatal, and he couldn't make Merlin spark the black mist. He could only watch helplessly as the woman quickly moved to the corner of the dining car with the small bag of super soldier serum.

The paralyzed Merlin fell on the dining car, almost every muscle in his body was twitching.

Beside him, several big men with unkind eyes surrounded him from all directions, and further away, people in flight attendant uniforms completely locked the door of the dining car from the outside.

In just a few days, Merlin's fighting style has been seen through by this unknown opponent.

They used a smarter way to imprison Merlin in the dining car and let him fall into a well-prepared trap.

"Stunned, take away!"

The tall man in the lead, who was the first to assassinate Merlin with the electric shock device, looked coldly at the target who was recovering from paralysis, and he gave a cold order.A strong man beside him lowered his body and lifted Merlin up from the ground.

But at this moment, a difficult and weird smile appeared on Merlin's twitching, paralyzed face, and he stammered:

"you..."

"I should have done it after I drank the water!"

At this time, on the wall behind Merlin, the minute hand of the wall clock lightly crossed the mark of 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, it was exactly 6 hours since Merlin drank water last time!

The faint water waves on the shell pendant hanging on Merlin's neck suddenly became dim at this moment, and the strong man strangling Merlin's neck also felt a cold wind blowing over his body, as if, a certain It's like a weird hell has been opened.

"bang"

There was a loud noise, and a spark jumped out of the engine of the train that was running normally. It stopped abruptly, causing the train to run at high speed as if it had hit an invisible obstacle, but fortunately, it did not cause an explosion.

The speed of the entire train decreased rapidly at this moment, and the people in the carriage screamed one after another, like a moment of disaster.

Unprepared unlucky people were thrown forward. It was fine in the passenger car with seats covered, but in the slightly empty dining car, this kind of hasty parking caused a worse situation.

Those exquisite glasses were thrown into the sky, just like those strong men who were staggering in front of Merlin's eyes. At this moment, he bit the tip of his tongue fiercely to wake himself up, and he did not attack those strong men.He knew that in such a prepared situation, they only needed a few electric shock devices to make themselves incapacitated again.

So he chose the most direct way...

He pulled out the black combat knife hidden in his boots. Under the horrified gazes of those strong men, a sinister smile appeared on Merlin's pale and distorted face. He held the knife backwards. Amidst the roar, he stabbed the sharp fighting knife fiercely into his heart.

"I have warned you..."

"Don't come! Mess with me!"

"boom"

In Merlin's angry roar, the violent dark magic power exploded directly in the dining car of the stopped train.

In this enclosed space, the power of the magic explosion was raised to the extreme, and the beautiful dining car seemed to be roughly torn from the center by an invisible hand. In the shattering of all the glass, the entire dining car was distorted from the center, bringing Smoke billowing with red sparks rose from the metallic ruins.

Explosions of magic come and go as fast as they come.

A few minutes later, Merlin, who was pale and staggered when he walked, joined the panicked passengers who were trying to escape the train.He was carrying a bag, a baseball cap, sunglasses, and an inconspicuous thermos in his hand, like a backpacker frightened by an explosion.

And behind him, in the ruins of the dining car completely distorted into a child's toy by the explosion, the beautiful blonde girl, the assassin disguised as a passenger, had been pierced through the heart by sharp steel.

In her beautiful but lifeless eyes, there was still the fear before death, as if she had seen hell descending with her own eyes.

But luckily, she was lucky.

At least in this hell covered with steel, blood and flesh, she somehow left a whole body behind.

"Thank you this time, Vico."

Merlin twisted open the water bottle, took a sip of the iced water, and let the shell pendant start working again.Looking back at the tragic scene behind him, he shook his head sadly.

I hope that the few dead this time can make those who hunted him more clear-headed when making decisions.

As for him...

His journey is not over yet.

(End of this chapter)